Kenkichi Ueda

Kenkichi Ueda (8 March 1875-11 September 1962) was the Governor-General of Kwantung from 1936 to 1939, succeeding Jiro Minami and preceding Yoshijiro Umezu.

Biography
Kenkichi Ueda was born on 8 March 1875 in Osaka, Japan, and he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1898 and from the Army Staff College in 1908. In 1918 he served as a staff officer in the Siberian Expeditionary Army during the Russian Civil War, and in 1924 he was promoted to Major-General of the Imperial Japanese Army. Ueda was appointed commander-in-chief of the Japanese China Garrison Army in 1929 and was involved in much of the fighting of the 1931-1932 Pacification of Manchuria. In 1932, he lost a leg in Korean nationalist Yun Bong-gil's bombing on Shanghai that killed his superior officer Yoshinori Shirakawa, and he returned to Japan to hold staff positions. From 1936 to 1939 he was active in China once more as Governor-General of Kwantung, and he was one of the believers that Japan's enemy would be the communist Soviet Union to the north. As a result of the disastrous Battle of Khalkhin Gol in 1939, Ueda was forced into retirement, and he died in 1962 at the age of 87, living quietly during World War II.